Open Source Strapi Alternatives Filtered by 'Headless CMS'

The best open source alternative to Strapi is WordPress. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Strapi and nine of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Strapi are Sanity.io, Cockpit, Squidex and Tina CMS.

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  1. WordPress icon
     1678 likes

    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

    128 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
     
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  2. Sanity.io icon
     11 likes

    Sanity is a hosted backend for structured content with a real-time API, globally distributed CDN, and a powerful, but simple query language. A headless CMS with an open source React-based editor, that can be configured with basic JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
     
  3. Cockpit icon
     18 likes

    Cockpit was born out of the need of building a simple dynamic site. Sure, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and all the other full-stack content management systems are possible solutions for that task ... but let's be honest, often they are just too bloated and too time consuming to...

    56 Cockpit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • SQLite
     
  4. Squidex icon
     2 likes

    Squidex is an open source headless CMS and content management hub. In contrast to a traditional CMS Squidex provides a rich API with OData filter and Swagger definitions. It is up to you to build your UI on top of it. It can be website, a native app or just another server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Tina CMS icon
     3 likes

    A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Git and Visual Editing.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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  6. Gentics Mesh icon
     14 likes

    Gentics Mesh is an open source API-first CMS, complete with multi-language support, versioning and roles & permissions. Built for scalability, it enables you to store & retrieve JSON documents and binaries via REST or GraphQL.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Webiny icon
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    Open-source serverless enterprise CMS. Includes a headless CMS, page builder, form builder, and file manager. Easy to customize and expand. Deploys to AWS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Atomic Server icon
     2 likes

    Atomic-server is a graph database server for storing and sharing Atomic Data. Demo on atomicdata.dev

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. Jahia icon
     3 likes

    Open-source enterprise-focused Digital Experience Platform (DXP = CMS + CDP) for creating websites and portals that scale.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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